ETA Spotlight // Andrei Papayanopulos, MBA ’14, Cofounder of Arpa Capital

Andrei Papayanopulos started at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with the aspiration to raise a venture capital fund in his native Mexico, where at the time, he…

Fireside Chat: Airbnb Cofounder Nathan Blecharczyk Reveals How the Business Grew, Survived COVID-19 and Found Success Thanks to a Publicity Stunt

 As Airbnb neared the end of its first year in business, its prospects looked grim. The San Francisco-based startup — at the time called AirBed & Breakfast — wasn’t…

Fireside Chat: Booth Alums Rattan L. Khosa and Son Neel Discuss Bootstrapping, Running a Family Business, and Weathering COVID-19

Growing up in the family business, Neel Khosa, MBA ’07, sometimes felt that the company his father founded was his “little brother.” “I had a bit of a sibling rivalry…

NVC@25 Fireside Chat: Ben & Frank Cofounder Mariana Castillo

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Edward L. Kaplan ’71 New Venture Challenge, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is hosting a series of fireside chats with alums…

LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman Talks Entrepreneurship, Investing in Tech Startups

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation began its Distinguished Entrepreneur Speaker Series with Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn. In a discussion with University of Chicago Booth School of…

StepStone Cofounder and Booth Alum Tom Keck Talks Investment Trends, Industry Evolution

Cofounded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumnus, Tom Keck, MBA ’97, the StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm that last year went public with…

Celebrating Chicago’s Black Tech Innovators: ‘Leverage the Digital World’

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in partnership with the Chicago Chapter of the National Black MBA Association recently hosted the virtual panel “Celebrating Chicago’s Black Tech Innovators.” Moderated…

‘It’s the American Dream’: Polsky Exec Talks Family-Owned Businesses, Innovation, and Education

Family businesses are the engine that runs the economy, says Polsky executive Dan Sachs, who speaks to the importance of supporting those contributors. We caught up with Sachs, who is…

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